Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-06
THE LABOR WAR.
PREIGHTBLOCKkDEG GETTING WORSE
Streets Near the River Front Blockaded With
Trucks.
The POOR OF BROOKLYNSUFFERIEG.
The Strike May Extend Westward to
Chicago.

New YORK, February 5.-The freight
blockade on the river front is worse to-day
than it was yesterday afternoon. In
many instances the truckmen left their
wagons in line last night, and led the horses
to stable and came back and slept on the
trucks. In Roosevelt Square at 8 o'clock
this morning there was not room for an
other truck, and the tail end of the line
extended up South street. The majority
of these men were waiting to unload on
the Clyde line pier, next to Roosevelt
ferry. The men on the pier were still en-
gagged in unloading the steamer Seminole,
which by this time should have been ready
for sailing Many Of the men on the
dock to-day only commenced work yester-
day. The Mallory line was in no better
condition.
The steamer Alamo, which was an
nounced to sail to-day, is at the dock with
the cargo incomplete. The street aud slips
In 'front.' oil the pier were
LINED WITH TRUCKS,
and the policemen on the gate found
plenty of work in preventing the truck
men from fighting to get on the pier out
of their turn. Some of these men had
been on their trucks all night. At the
New Haven freight line dock the same
block of freight was to be seen. The
Baltimore and Ohio is receiving freight
for Washington and Delaware generally.
On the Ward line pier the same difficulty
to move freight was apparent, Pier 8 of
the Erie freight line was also deserted. On
the North river the blockade was much
worse than in the east side.
The announcement by most Of the COM
panies that they would be in position to
receive freight, caused big rush, hut
when some of the truckmen, having
waited all day yesterday and then un-
htched their horses and returned home,
reported that there was no sign of their be-
ing able to discharge, the merchants saw
how useless it was to attempt to ship
freight in large quantities. One driver i'll
front of Morgan's dock said he loaded up
at Thurber's yesterday ut 8 O'Clock. His
truck had been in line ever since that
time, and at 8 O'Clock this morning there
were fifteen men ahead of him. This is
only one Of many instances Of similar
nature.
At Pier ., the Lehigh Valley Railroad
opened two doors and hung up board
stating "local freight only received Pier
3, of the Alexander line, was closed. 1t was
stated that one of the Pennsylvania piers
freight was being dumped into the cars in
discriminatory, to ne stored in transit. The
New Jersey Central Piers l3 and II were
closed at 9 o'clock, rs the freight offered
could not be handled. The Jam of trucks
extended from Pier to Pier lG, aud it was
almost impossible for the horse cars TO get
along.
AT THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO PIER,
foot of Dover street, East river, fair prog
ress is being made in handling freight.
There has been some trouble, but no viO-
lence to-day in HOboken because n num-
ber of coal carts from New York have been
carting coal from yards at Grove and New
ark streets to customers in New York.
The coal is supplied by the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Company, and
the strikers tried to stop the drivers, but
the police guarded them and drove the
strikers off.
Acting Mayor Beckman to-day issued n
proclamation Offering a reward Of 500 for
the apprehension and conviction of the
person or persons concerned in the dyna-
mite explosion on the Old Dominion
steamer Guyandotte on the 3lst ult.